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Hymns and Verses that Run through My Head

I guess that "All the Way My Savior Leads Me" has become my theme song since just prior to confirmed diagnosis.  At that time, while musing on the depth of the truths of the verses of that song, I was surprised to look it up and learn that it had been written by Fanny Crosby.  I had always admired Fanny Crosby, but regarded her as a "lightweight" on doctrinal truth - not inaccurate, just not deep.  It is amazing how much a little adversity can extend the depth of applied doctrine.   I have since learned that while Miss Crosby wrote this song as the testimony of her life (she was blind), it was written in response to a particular incident where God provided for her immediate and dire financial needs in a nearly-miraculous way (I guess the royalties from hymn-writing and CD sales of hymns weren't much in the 19th century).  Here is the first stanza of that hymn, the others are good, too:

All the way my Savior leads me, what have I to ask beside?
Can I doubt His tender mercy, who through life has been my guide?
Heavenly peace, divinest comfort, here by faith in Him to dwell!
For I know, what e’er befall me, Jesus doeth all things well.
  All The Way My Savior Leads Me, Fanny J. Crosby, 1875

 

Bible Verses That Run Through My Head:

God is our refuge and our strength, a very present help in trouble.  Therefore, we will not fear - Psalm 46

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials; knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 

And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.  - James 1:1,2

"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?  And yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father.  But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.  Therefore do not fear; you are of more value than many sparrows."                 

- Jesus, Gospel According to Matthew, 10:29-31

"O, Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up."

Shadrach, Meshach, & Abednego, Book of Daniel, 3:16-18

“Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?” 

 - Job, Book of Job, 2:10

 “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Just as it is written,
'For Thy sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.'
"But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:35-39

“…may you see your children’s children.”            

     Psalm 125:6

Lines from Other Hymns That I Find Running Through My Head:

Children of the heavenly Father, Safely in His bosom gather.
Nestling bird nor star in heaven, such a refuge e’er was given.
...Praise the Lord in joyful numbers, your Protector never slumbers
At the will of your Defender, every foe-man must surrender.
…Though He giveth, or He taketh, God His children ne’er forsaketh.
His the loving purpose solely to preserve them pure and holy.
                Children of the Heavenly Father, Translated Swedish Hymn, 1855


Be still, My soul; Thy God doth undertake to guide the future as He has the past.
                Be Still, My Soul, Translated German Hymn, 1752